Walton-On-Thames Community Arts Trust

Analysis

Walton-On-Thames Community Arts Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Walton-On-Thames. It was registered in December 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Walton-On-Thames Community Arts Trust reported income of £35k and spending of £43k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £47k to £35k (-25%), an average of -7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 260%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Walton-On-Thames Community Arts Trust sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Aldborough Community Centre (£35k), Crickhowell Choral Society (£35k) and Punjabi Theatre Academy UK (£35k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.